ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL

ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL, a rural-scale 9-12 campus in TIERRA AMARILLA, New Mexico, part of CHAMA VALLEY, hosts 134 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 450 students each, so ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

Within CHAMA VALLEY, which oversees 3 schools and 262 students, ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 7% White, 5% Native American, 3% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Rio Arriba County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.9:1, putting ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Rio Arriba County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,155 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Rio Arriba County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,127 students), ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TIERRA AMARILLA ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.4 miles away.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. ESCALANTE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 146 (now 134). The White share of enrollment decreased from 13% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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